Earth Invasion

Chapter 433 Dragon Gate Array

Contrary to the seriousness of the large space circle fleet, Ratcliffe's flagship of the NATO expedition fleet, the Storm Shadow, can't see the shadow of a spacesuit at all.The entire battleship is filled with breathable air with a concentration of 20.00% V, and there is a faint mint fragrance in the middle.At the same time, the control personality of the battleship is monitoring the blood oxygen concentration of all crew members in real time and adjusting it at any time.

As for the combat regulations, your Excellency the General means that in space, and the speed of both sides is too fast now.Once it is really sunk, it will be dead without life.Whether you wear a space suit or not, can you fly back to Earth or Assyria with the oxygen regeneration tablets in the space suit?So, just turn on the oxygen, such people are more comfortable and may have more combat effectiveness.

NATO's space force is organized by the navy. The navy is a service that requires etiquette and appearance, but now on the bridge of the battleship, all the crew members are disheveled, many of them are shirtless, and some female crew members even wear bikinis .

There's no way, it's too hot on the battleship now, even if it's like this, it's just barely sweating.Even the most well-groomed General Ratcliffe had taken off his overcoat and was wearing a cotton shirt with the collar and first button unbuttoned.

And if you look from the side of him, you can see that the general's lips are already chapped.There is also peeling on the cheeks.Fortunately, the air circulation and filtration system of the battleship is still working, and there are no dandruff flying around.

It’s not just the large fleet in the space circle that is short of supplies. If they are only approaching the cordon, then the people of the NATO expedition fleet have begun to restrict the use of supplies, especially water.

The heat in the battleship is only a by-product. The outer layer of working medium water has been reduced too much, even with forced circulation, it is impossible to dissipate all the heat from the outside of the absolute black body cladding.As a result, it's as hot as Hawaii.

"There are no more hula girls." General Ratcliffe cursed. There was a projected countdown timer in front of his commander's seat, and there were less than a hundred hours left on it.

This means two things. First, his supplies are enough to consume another 100 hours.Second, in 100+ hours, reinforcements from Earth will arrive.

However, according to the current situation, the opponent rushed like a slinger, even if reinforcements came, he would be consumed by the opponent first, and there was no time to replenish before the battle when the reinforcements arrived.

You must find a way to make the other party stop, or let yourself run a little further.

But how can we slow down the other party?He couldn't help but fell into deep thinking.It was as if a pot had been boiled in his head, one thought on the left would not work, and one thought on the right would not work.

When he finally started to look at the star map depressed, a super adventurous idea suddenly popped up in his head.

And at his old opponent, General Collins is also worrying about how to find water.Although he could judge that the opponent's large fleet was more difficult than his own supplies, he also considered that the opponent might have reinforcement options.If that's the case, he'd better find somewhere to refill his water sooner.

At this time, the route planning officer reported to him that the NATO expeditionary fleet began to turn again.

"Just bite! Let the FOX team get ready, and we will continue to attack in two hours!" His Excellency the General did not lift his head.This kind of turning is so common that I almost don't need to think about any countermeasures, just bite it.Moreover, turning means that the straight-line distance will be further shortened. What should be done at this time is to make the single-seater combat boats who have already worked three shifts work hard again.

"By the way, inform the Foxes! Bring plasma torpedoes and nuclear bombs! If the other party is a little negligent, treat them well!"

In order to harass the opponent, Your Excellency the General numbered the single-seat combat boats on all the battleships and formed three brigades, TOM, FOX, and COW (Tom Cat, Fox, and Bull).Then the three brigades took turns on duty for 8 hours.Whenever possible, they would rush out and fight each other.

This extremely exhausting fight has been going on for several days, and people's nerves are already tense.But there is no way, until the winner is decided, he can only grit his teeth and persevere.

But not long after this turn, the radar controller spoke again.

"Report, estimated movement of asteroid found in the front right, the straight-line distance is 3 light seconds, and the direction of departure is found to be at an angle of 1 degrees."

"Asteroid?" General Collins raised his head.This place has crossed the center line of the third planet, and will soon reach the gravitational area of ​​the fourth planet. It is not new for asteroids to appear at this time.

The other party wants to drill the satellite groups and gravel belts of the fourth planet?Ha ha, it's a good calculation.General Collins sneered: "Leave him alone! Keep biting!"

But before he finished speaking, the intelligence analysis officer suddenly yelled!

"There is ice! Spectral analysis found that there is ice on this asteroid! Specific data analysis is in progress!"

This voice captured everyone's heart!Great, I am worrying about water!Even if it is not H2O but solid methane and carbon dioxide, as long as there are these things, it is equivalent to having a working medium. If there is a working medium, the fresh water on the ship that will be pre-set for combat later can be used.

"The entire fleet is turning, ready to fly on a circular closed route! The combat preset ship is stepping forward! The UFP operation team is ready!"

When someone fell asleep, someone would send a pillow, and General Collintz ordered it immediately.From the perspective of the route, even if I only do a small part of towing or cutting operations, the distance wasted in the middle is just to increase the straight-line distance between the two parties to 100 kilometers.Now it is about to enter the gravitational zone of the fourth planet. On the contrary, if you really plan to drill into the gravel zone, the speed must be slowed down by [-]%.Moreover, after drilling the gravel belt, you will definitely be able to find water or other working fluids, and then your own consumption advantage will be gone.It's better to add it here now and make plans.

At this time, General Nakajima began to worry instead. Could this be a trap for the other party?
"In such a short time, what kind of trap can they get in!"

Think about it too.This time is too short. Even if the opponent sets a trap, how much force can the opponent concentrate to pose a threat to the entire large fleet that has already taken it up.

So the Grand Fleet is in motion.

When the large fleet began to overtake the asteroid from behind and prepared its combat pre-arrangement ship to circle the asteroid, the NATO large fleet also stopped accelerating continuously.

"Be careful, those guys probably have no working fluid, and they might come here to grab water!" said a person who was driving a UFP and let the machine stand on the deck of the preset ship.

In fact, at this time, the opponent's large fleet has surpassed the asteroid and is flying in the direction of the fourth planet.Even if the opponent starts to turn and cut through the asteroid, it is not enough to circle, and it is more likely to pass by again.

The large fleet is very long, and to maintain speed, this circle is relatively large, and since this asteroid is also flying, this circle will inevitably become an eccentric circle.

Just when the main fleet in the space circle was the farthest away from the asteroid, and the combat pre-configuration ship circled the asteroid closest to carry out operations, the NATO expeditionary fleet suddenly moved.

Single Seat Battleship!The opponent's single-seater combat boat has not moved much!The reason why the opponent stopped the thruster was to make the entire battleship turn backwards along the axis!The electromagnetic catapult endowed the single-seat battleship with a high enough speed, so that the relative speed between these battleships and the asteroid immediately exceeded [-]!

If this is the case, the opponent can 100% say that after a round of raids on the pre-installed ship, the battleship can be picked up by the high turn of the battleship and then stop for a while. The cost is only to reduce the distance between the two sides to 4 kilometers. .

It seems that for NATO, it is a business that only makes money but does not lose money.

But is it so?At least the frigates and UFPs guarding the preset ship don't see it that way.There are still too few combat boats ejected by the opponent, which is not enough for these UFPs to get stuck between their teeth.

But at this moment, an avalanche-like explosion occurred inside the asteroid.This small asteroid, the size of two oil tankers, with a total mass of no more than 60 tons, turned into a huge smoke bomb!
The air waves generated by the explosion rushed towards the two combat preset ships overwhelmingly, and the UFP standing on them was blown everywhere like a toy!

This place was, of course, the trap Ratcliffe had set for him.And this trap is purely caused by an information asymmetry.

For the Assyrian solar system, NATO has one of the biggest advantages over the space circle, and that is the level of detail of the star map.During the 30 to [-] years since the independence of the space circle, they have surpassed NATO in many space undertakings, but only in terms of understanding the Assyrian solar system, they have almost started from scratch, while NATO has accumulated a lot.There are some strange celestial bodies, or characteristic routes or phenomena, which are not known to the space circle, but NATO has detailed information.

For example, this asteroid was nicknamed "Sandwich Biscuit" by NATO.This asteroid, which looks like a small snowball, is the most famous type among the outermost group of small satellites orbiting the fourth planet.This thing was originally a comet, which was later captured by the huge gravity of the fourth planet.After splitting into two pieces, one piece has crashed into the fourth planet, and is now part of the huge halo of the fourth planet, and this split small piece has become an asteroid.

The most interesting thing is that this thing is a mixture of methane and water.For some reason, the distribution is very even, as if someone deliberately stirred it.

Will it explode in space?If there is enough fuel and oxidant, it can explode, and the expansion speed of the gas produced by the explosion is much faster than that on the earth.

And Ratcliffe ordered his engineers to launch many electromagnetic rockets and catalysts at the asteroid.The induced current generated after the detonation of the plasma rocket caused a large amount of water to be decomposed into oxygen, hydrogen, and even ozone, and then mixed with methane in the form of powder smoke...

A man-made, celestial version of the fuel-air bomb was born.

(End of this chapter)